Fan Jinghui

Fan Jinghui (18 March 1965-18 November 2015) was a freelance consultant from China who was kidnapped and executed by the Islamic State in 2015, their first Chinese hostage.

Biography
Fan Jinghui was born on 18 March 1965 in Beijing, and after graduating from college in 1984 he taught at secondary schools for six years. He later worked as an advertising consultant, in a Taiwanese department store, and he eventually became a freelance consultant. On 9 September 2015 he was taken as a hostage by the Islamic State in an unknown location, and on 18 November 2015 he was executed alongside a Norwegian hostage.